91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-91.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28 and 37-52 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x--x--------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------------x-----------------x-----x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
99 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.